“The magazines telling me strong is the new sexy and smart is the new beautiful, as though strong and smart are just paths to hot. The Facebook memes: Muscles are beautiful. No, wait: Fat is beautiful. No, wait: Thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautif…”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: Sexism, Media, beauty, feminism, Body Positive
“Maybe all that wine is an Instagram filter for our own lives, so we don’t see how sallow and cracked they’ve become.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: LOL, Alcohol, Life
“Maybe women are so busy faking it — to be more like a man at work, more like a porn star in bed, more like 30 at 50 — that we don’t trust our natural responses anymore.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: feminism, Sexism, Womanhood, Sex
“Is it really that hard, being a First World woman? Is it really so tough to have the career and the spouse and the pets and the herb garden and the core strengthening and the oh-I-just-woke-up-like-this makeup and the face injections and the Uber driver who might possibly be a rapist? Is it so hard…”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: feminism, Sexism
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: Mansplaining, feminism, Gender Wars, Sexism
“As you may have noticed, there’s no acceptable way to be a woman.”— Kristi Coulter, vox.comTagged: Womanhood, feminism